Books - Children

• Dick King-Smith
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780552554367
• Published: 02-02-2006

\"I've got a chicken that wants to be a duck!\"Frank is a funny chick. Unlike all his brothers and sisters, he doesn't want to peck around at anything and everything in the dust. No, Frank wants to dabble about in the lovely duckpond, splashing himself with water. Most of all, he w...

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• Geraldine McCaughrean
• Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• ISBN13: 9780713674552
• Published: 04-07-2005

A thriller set in ancient Egypt between 1351-1354 BC. Tutmose and Ibrim's father, the animal dealer, is commanded by the new pharaoh Akhenaten, to bring him animals - lots of animals - for his new capital city. The boys' father is delighted. But he has no idea what the pharaoh's strange new re...

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• Cornelia Funke
• Chicken House Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781904442486
• Published: 06-06-2005

A dragon. A boy. A journey. Firedrake, a brave young dragon, his loyal brownie friend Sorrel and a lonely boy called Ben are united as if by destiny. Together, they embark on a magical journey to find the legendary place where silver dragons can live in peace for ever. With only a curious map...

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• Geraldine McCaughrean
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780192754325
• Published: 31-03-2005

Everyone knows the story of the Flood, the men God chose to survive, the animals that went in two by two. But what about the others that sailed on the Ark - the women and the children? This adventure story asks what it was really like when the heavens opened and the world drowned - and what mi...

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• Joe Craig
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9780007196852
• Published: 31-03-2005

An eleven-year-old boy discovers he has strange powers, and a future that holds mystery, adventure - and death! Bending his knees, Jimmy let go of the windowsill and slowly tipped backwards. Surely this is impossible, he thought, even as he could feel himself doing it. He pushed out wit...

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• Jill Tomlinson, Paul Howard
• Egmont UK Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781405210850
• Published: 06-12-2004

A heart-warming classic full of animal antics by Jill Tomlinson. Otto is a penguin chick, that much he knows, but other than this he has a lot to learn. Life at the bottom of the world is a curious thing and life can change at a moment's notice. The next blizzard, the next meal and the threat...

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• Kevin Crossley-Holland
• Orion Children's Books
• ISBN13: 9781842551554
• Published: 05-08-2004

Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time and age, appealing to children of 9+ and older readers alike. The final book in the trilogy from the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Smarties Prize bronze award is a timeless novel.<...

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• Cornelia Funke
• Chicken House Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781904442219
• Published: 07-06-2004

Meggie loves books. So does her father, Mo, a bookbinder, although he has never read aloud to her since her mother mysteriously disappeared. They live quietly until the night a stranger knocks at their door. He has come with a warning that forces Mo to reveal an extraordinary secret - a storyt...

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